Valve reveal the most popular Steam games of 2025

Now that 2025 is done and finished with, we can see what the most popular games were overall on Steam, and for Steam Deck the list is no big surprise at all.

Valve released a special page for 2025 to give you an overall view of things. From that we can see overall on PC the top games based on playtime which Valve tracked as the "Most played games measured by unique players over the calendar year" were (in no particular order):

• Apex Legends
• Terraria
• PEAK
• Dota 2
• Left 4 Dead 2
• Delta Force
• Stardew Valley
• PUBG Battlegrounds
• Grand Theft Auto V
• Marvel Rivals
• Counter-Strike 2
• R.E.P.O

The overall top sellers were (again in no particular order) and this counts micro-transactions too for free to play games:

• Battlefield 6
• Kingdom Come Deliverance II
• Dota 2
• Call of Duty
• Schedule I
• Apex Legends
• PUBG Battlegrounds
• Marvel Rivals
• R.E.P.O
• ARC Raiders
• Counter-Strike 2
• Monster Hunter Wilds

Pictured - Kingdom Come Deliverance II

For the Steam Deck, we actually can get the proper order since Valve have an always up to date dedicated page to show off the playtime stats across different games on the Steam Deck. Going from Jan 3, 2025 - Jan 2, 2026 the most-played games on Steam Deck for the whole year were:

• Stardew Valley
• Balatro
• Hades II
• Baldur's Gate 3
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Hollow Knight
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Megabonk
• Hades
• Red Dead Redemption 2